Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 7

So they made merry till evening, and then the serpent said, "Early this morning, my youngest daughter went bathing in the sea and lost her ring in the water.

Who acts: daughters, serpent, youngest daughter · What happens: make, say, go, bath, lose · To what, where: sea, ring, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, serpent, youngest daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
5	till	till	ADP	_	6 evening	case
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 said	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 serpent	det
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 morning	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 morning	punct
15	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 morning	advmod
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 morning	det
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
20	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 daughter	amod
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
23	bathing	bath	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 went	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bathing	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lost	cc
28	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ring	nmod:poss
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lost	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lost	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	daughters = daughter			evening	merry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the serpent			then; morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	past	my youngest daughter					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bath in a quote	gerund	my youngest daughter not said here		the sea			tree rules
5	lose in a quote	past	my youngest daughter not said here	Tis's ring	the water			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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